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[fm-news] Newsletter for Wednesday, December 27th 2006
From: The freshmeat daily newsletter (freshmeat-news
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Date: Thu Dec 28 2006 - 02:10:08 CST
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::: L I N K S F O R T H E D A Y :::
Today's news on the web: http://freshmeat.net/daily/2006/12/27/
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (52) :::
[001] - ANUGA 1.0 beta 4106
[002] - AqBanking 2.2.4
[003] - arpwatch NG 1.6
[004] - Avis 0.7
[005] - Azureus Speed Control 1.0
[006] - Bastard 34b
[007] - BEAST/BSE 0.7.1
[008] - BlockHosts 1.0.5
[009] - BuGLe 0.0.20061227
[010] - CamStream 0.27
[011] - Carte 0.2.0
[012] - Clockywock 0.2.3
[013] - d command 5.4
[014] - DataDraw 3.0.5
[015] - Ethics Search Protocol 1.84
[016] - GFP 0.6.6
[017] - GNU Denemo 0.7.6
[018] - Gourmet Recipe Manager 0.13.1
[019] - GProFTPD 8.2.9
[020] - Jar Ajar 0.3.1beta1
[021] - JSCAPE Secure FTP Server 2.1
[022] - Kahua 1.0
[023] - keyTouch 2.3.0 beta 4
[024] - ksar 3.0.3
[025] - KScannerButtons 0.9.4
[026] - libchipcard 3.0.2 (Chipcard3)
[027] - libunion 0.0.2
[028] - Liquid Weather ++ 13.5
[029] - Logtalk 2.29.1
[030] - msort 8.33
[031] - Open Administration for Schools 2.20
[032] - OpenHPI 2.7.3 (Development)
[033] - Openwall Linux kernel patch 2.4.34-ow1 (Linux 2.4)
[034] - PgmReloaded 0.8.6
[035] - PM Report 3.6
[036] - Postfilter 0.7.2
[037] - PyMediaServer 0.5.0
[038] - rdup 0.3.5
[039] - Ruby/Informix 0.5.0
[040] - Schism Tracker 0.5rc1
[041] - sendEmail 1.55
[042] - Sequoia 3.0 beta 2 (Development)
[043] - SiSU 0.48.9
[044] - StreamCruncher 1.02 Beta
[045] - Talend Open Studio 1.1.0RC1 (Development)
[046] - Tapestry JSCookMenu 2.20
[047] - The Frink Language 2006-12-27
[048] - Tudu Lists 2.0-beta-1
[049] - TVBrowser 2.5
[050] - VMware 6 Beta Build 36983 (Workstation Development)
[051] - Wine 0.9.28
[052] - Work order / Ticket Processing System 0.1.6
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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S :::
[001] - ANUGA 1.0 beta 4106
by Ole Nielsen (http://freshmeat.net/users/uniomni/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 23:34
About: ANUGA is a software implementation of a hydrodynamic model that is
specifically designed to model wetting and drying processes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/anuga/
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[002] - AqBanking 2.2.4
by aquamaniac (http://freshmeat.net/users/aquamaniac/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 17:11
Office/Business :: Financial
Software Development :: Libraries
About: AqBanking is a modular and generic interface to online banking
tasks, financial file formats (import/export) and bank/country/currency
information. It provides frontends for Qt, KDE, GTK, and console.
AqBanking uses backend plugins to actually perform the online tasks. HBCI,
OFX DirectConnect, YellowNet, GeldKarte, and DTAUS discs are currently
supported. AqBanking is used by GnuCash, KMyMoney,and QBankManager.
Changes: AqGeldKarte has been fixed and adapted to Libchipcard3, which is
now required instead of Libchipcard2. The QBanking frontend is now less
verbose. Qt should be found on Darwin. Some other minor bugs have been
fixed, and the bank data files for Germany have been updated.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/aqbanking/
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[003] - arpwatch NG 1.6
by Freek (http://freshmeat.net/users/thefreek/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 13:26
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
About: The arpwatch NG package contains arpwatch and arpsnmp. Both
utilities monitor Ethernet or FDDI network traffic and build databases of
Ethernet/IP address pairs, and can report certain changes. It is based
upon the original, but old, arpwatch package.
Changes: All report mode related information has been consolidated into
one central report function table to allow for easy customization.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/arpwatch-ng/
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[004] - Avis 0.7
by Matthew Phillips (http://freshmeat.net/users/scramjet/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 05:05
Internet
Software Development
About: Avis is a flexible event router service compatible with the
commercial Elvin implementation produced by Mantara Software. It provides
a general-purpose, high performance publish/subscribe message bus using
content-based subscriptions.
Changes: This release improves ease of router installation and
configuration by adding native installer packages for Mac OS X, Fedora
Core, and Windows. The router now supports configuration options via the
-c switch.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/avis/
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[005] - Azureus Speed Control 1.0
by Christian Kaltepoth (http://freshmeat.net/users/chkal/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 23:22
Communications :: File Sharing
About: Azureus Speed Control is an Azureus plugin that can automatically
reduce the upload speed limit based on the current download rate. This can
avoid connection choking for users with small upload bandwidth, which
suffer from implicit additional upload.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/speedcontrol/
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[006] - Bastard 34b
by Dariush Pietrzak (http://freshmeat.net/users/eyck/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 13:28
System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux
System :: Systems Administration
About: Bastard is virtual server oriented patchset, containing essential
elements for building virtual server container machines. It includes a
CTX-VS patch, squashfs for creating a small template server, lufs and bme
for easily creating overlayed filesystems on top of the template, and
honeynet- inspired extensions to enhance monitoring of hosted servers. It
also includes VPN extensions like OpenSWAN, MPPE, and CIPE to enable
direct access to hosted virtual servers in situations where IPs are
scarce.
Changes: The fixes included in 2.4.34 have been removed. r8169 PCI IDs
have been backported.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bsd2/
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[007] - BEAST/BSE 0.7.1
by Tim Janik (http://freshmeat.net/users/tjanik/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 17:17
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: MIDI
About: Beast is a powerful music composition and modular synthesis
application. It offers multiple input methods like multitrack, piano roll,
and pattern editing and supports skins. On the technical side, it has a
wide range of abilities like sequencing, unlimited undo/redo history,
real-time synthesis with multiprocessor support, full duplex 32-bit audio
rendering, precise timing down to sample granularity, on demand loading of
partial wave files, on the fly decoding of various sample formats, aliasing
free oscillators, and full Scheme scripting support.
Changes: This release fixes an important SUID vulnerability, and
introduces new features like different musical tunings. It also has new
and extended modules (BseQuantizer) and a lot of stability and
documentation fixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/beastbse/
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[008] - BlockHosts 1.0.5
by Avinash Chopde (http://freshmeat.net/users/avinash1/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 17:16
System :: Networking
About: BlockHosts is a script to record how many times "sshd" or "proftpd"
is attacked. When a particular IP address exceeds a configured number of
failed login attempts, that IP address is added to /etc/hosts.allow, with
the deny option. A check is also made for stale entries in hosts.allow,
and these will then be deleted.
Changes: This release fixes the bug where the ignore-offset argument was
not being acted upon. It adds a new regular expression to catch more
instances of SSHD failures.
License: Public Domain
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/blockhosts/
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[009] - BuGLe 0.0.20061227
by Bruce Merry (http://freshmeat.net/users/bmerry/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 05:23
Multimedia :: Graphics
Software Development :: Debuggers
Software Development :: Libraries
About: BuGLe combines a graphical OpenGL debugger with a selection of
filters on the OpenGL command stream. The debugger allows viewing of
state, textures, framebuffers, and shaders, while the filters allow for
logging, error checking, free camera control, video capture, and more.
Changes: There is now an option in the texture and framebuffer viewers to
remap the range. This is useful for viewing textures with data outside the
[0, 1] range as well as images with low dynamic range. There are also many
bugfixes. In particular, BuGLe should now work much better on ATI cards.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bugle/
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[010] - CamStream 0.27
by Nemosoft Unv. (http://freshmeat.net/users/nemosoft/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 22:52
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Capture
Multimedia :: Video :: Capture
About: CamStream is a tool for webcams and TV grabber cards that allows
for streaming video from multiple video sources. It can save and/or upload
(FTP) timed snapshots. It provides a GUI frontend to control the video
devices.
Changes: The application is now completely multithreaded, which allows for
smoother operation. TV tuning has been implemented, so CamStream is now
fully functional with TV cards. Besides saving and transferring snapshots
with FTP, it is now possible to use a script. The FTP code has been
rewritten. A new user manual was written.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/camstream/
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[011] - Carte 0.2.0
by Genus Consulting (http://freshmeat.net/users/genus/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 22:50
About: Carte is a report engine that is able to produce reports in text
(including XML or XHTML) or PDF formats. Instead of using a proprietary
format, it uses CSS style sheets to specify formatting.
Changes: This is an early access release for interested developers only.
The main focus is on compatibility with the latest CSS4J package.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/carte/
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[012] - Clockywock 0.2.3
by dentar (http://freshmeat.net/users/dentar/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 17:08
About: Clockywock is a cool analog clock for the Linux console.
Changes: Minor code cleanup was performed, and it now compiles cleanly on
FC5.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/clockywock/
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[013] - d command 5.4
by Dave Yost (http://freshmeat.net/users/DaveYost/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 23:14
Software Development :: Build Tools
System :: Shells
About: The d command runs a command in the background and redirects its
output to a file. The output file is annotated with start and end time,
the actual command used, cwd, host, etc. You can ask the d command to
extract the last command from the output file and run it again, you can
ask it to append to the file or not, and other goodies. It comes with
handy little programs to look at the output, tail it, etc. It is sort of
trivial, but has been streamlined over many years.
Changes: The script was fixed so that in addition to zsh, it also works
with bash, ksh, and sh.
License: Freely Distributable
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dcommand/
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[014] - DataDraw 3.0.5
by Bill Cox (http://freshmeat.net/users/smilindog2000/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 05:24
Database :: Database Engines/Servers
Software Development :: Code Generators
About: DataDraw is a feature rich persistent database generator for high
performance C applications. It is based on 15 years of experience
supporting over 1 million lines of high performance code.
Changes: All major envisioned features are now fully supported, including
persistence, infinite undo and redo, both binary and ASCII loading and
saving, and the database manager.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/datadraw/
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[015] - Ethics Search Protocol 1.84
by Bernhard Fastenrath (http://freshmeat.net/users/fasten/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 13:26
Documentation
Text Processing :: Markup :: XML
About: ESP (Ethics Search Protocol) is an XML-based protocol for search
engines that is designed to allow people to express specific ethical
requirements when performing searches. Consumers seldom get the chance to
communicate ethical requirements because the proper communication channel
does not exist. This project has the goal to offer an open source
specification and implementation for that missing communication channel.
Changes: Minor changes in preparation for IETF submission.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/esp/
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[016] - GFP 0.6.6
by Igor Regis (http://freshmeat.net/users/igor_ti/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 17:10
Office/Business :: Financial
About: GFP is a Java/Swing personal finance manager that is translated to
9 languages and is being translated to more. It supports credit card,
bank, and savings accounts, and is easy to use.
Changes: This release fixes bug 1602851 (type of transactions cannot be
deleted), 1602850 (assets cannot be deleted), 1602548 (values on
Transactions Pie Chart reports are missing), and 1600074 (contacts can not
be removed).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gfd/
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[017] - GNU Denemo 0.7.6
by Adam Tee (http://freshmeat.net/users/atee/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 07:32
About: Denemo lets you quickly prepare notation for publishing with
Lilypond. It does not strive to display all notation graphically, or to be
the most complete graphic enviroment. But in concert with LilyPond, it is
an extremely powerful music notation system. It is very keyboard intensive
and relies sparingly on the mouse. As well as exporting to the Lilypond
format, it exports to the ABC notation format.
Changes: Fake chords are supported. Basic MIDI keyboard input was added. A
score configuration wizard was implemented. Various bugs were fixed.
Independent staff lengths were added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnudenemo/
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[018] - Gourmet Recipe Manager 0.13.1
by tom (http://freshmeat.net/users/Thomas_Hinkle/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 23:11
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Information Management
About: Gourmet Recipe Manager is a simple but powerful recipe managing
application that is intended for the GNOME desktop environment, but
should work on any platform that Gtk supports. It allows you to collect,
search, and organize your recipes, and to automatically generate shopping
lists from your collection. It aims to make it easy to enter and
organize your recipes with an intuitive interface.
Changes: This version is slightly more stable and includes a new feature
that allows you to see which ingredients contribute to the nutritional
profile of a meal. The layout has also been improved. A number of minor
bugs were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/grecipe-manager/
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[019] - GProFTPD 8.2.9
by Magnus-swe (http://freshmeat.net/users/magnusswe/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 17:12
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
About: GProFTPD is a GNOME frontend for the ProFTPD standalone server.
Changes: This release adds ratio module management, which is used if the
module exists. Ratios can now be set on a per user basis and survive
server restarts. A new directory called "restricted" will be created in
each newly added user's home directory and used with the ratio module.
There is better detection for bad configurations. Automatic deprecation
has been added for the "Bind " option when using proftpd 1.3.1rc1 or
higher. Automatic transformation has been added for the deprecated
DisplayFirstChdir option. A French translation has been added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gproftpd/
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[020] - Jar Ajar 0.3.1beta1
by David Young (http://freshmeat.net/users/davit/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 22:52
System :: Archiving :: Packaging
System :: Software Distribution
About: Jar Ajar is a JAR-based self-extractor for zip files. It can
package zipped files with descriptive images and text using a graphical
interface. When recipients launch the resulting JAR, Jar Ajar guides users
through the unzip process.
Changes: New features in this edition include the ability to display a
license during self-extraction and a readme afterward. Jar Ajar can also
now launch programs after extraction.
License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jarajar/
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[021] - JSCAPE Secure FTP Server 2.1
by JScape (http://freshmeat.net/users/jscape/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 10:28
Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
About: JSCAPE Secure FTP Server is a highly secure FTP server designed to
provide enterprise level secure file transfer capabilities. It is
platform-independent with installers for Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Mac
OS X.
Changes: This release adds an authentication module for authenticating
users against relational databases, LDAP, or Active Directory services. It
adds the ability to schedule one-time-only or recurring actions using
Current Time event and triggers. It adds the ability to store activity
logs in a relational database. It adds checkpoint restart and checksum
verification to file transfer actions.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/secureftpserver/
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[022] - Kahua 1.0
by bizenn (http://freshmeat.net/users/bizenn/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 23:22
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers
About: Kahua is CPS, Continuation Passing Style application framework and
servers written in one of Scheme implementation, Gauche. It has the
advantages that you can use "Continuation" easily so you can resolve the
typical Web application's problem of process disconnection, you can
program declaratively by using S-expressions as a fundamental data type,
you can use Kahua's Object Database to persist data, and you can modify
the function being run, supporting incremental development.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kahua/
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[023] - keyTouch 2.3.0 beta 4
by MarvinR (http://freshmeat.net/users/marvinr/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 13:23
Desktop Environment :: Tools
System :: Hardware
Utilities
About: keyTouch makes it possible to easily configure the extra function
keys of a keyboard (like multimedia keys). It allows the user to define
which program will be executed when a key is pressed.
Changes: keytouch-acpid is not an X client anymore. Instead, it writes
events to the event device of a keyboard. 'make install' will now install
a boot script that calls keytouch-acpid so that it will run in the
background. The Xsession script will not be installed anymore, because
keytouch-acpid is no longer an X client. In the Amixer plugin, muting is
now also possible for channels without a playback switch.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/keytouch/
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[024] - ksar 3.0.3
by xavier cherif (http://freshmeat.net/users/xcherif/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 05:19
System :: Systems Administration
About: ksar is a sar graphing tool that can graph Linux, Mac OS X, and
Solaris sar output. A sar statistics graph can be output to a PDF file.
Changes: It is now possible to launch kSar to parse a local text file and
output a graph to a local PDF file using the command line. AIX support is
now complete, so kSar will be able to graph sar output from AIX (at least
4.3 and 5.3). A "check for update" menu was added.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ksar/
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[025] - KScannerButtons 0.9.4
by Jean-Christophe Cardot (http://freshmeat.net/users/leajice/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 10:33
Desktop Environment :: K Desktop Environment (KDE)
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Capture :: Scanners
About: KScannerButtons is a daemon plus an optional KDE frontend for
monitoring your scanner buttons so that actions can be taken in response
to button presses. It's composed of a daemon (sanebuttond), a frontend
that will display an icon in the systray, and a dialog box to configure
and launch the daemon. It is based on the button monitoring capabilities
found in some SANE backends. It has been tested with the avision backend
and an HP 5300C scanner. The frontend requires Kommander (kde-webdev).
Changes: This release fixes the broken default actions created at first
run. Note: if you need to reset the default actions, remove the section
[/usr/local/bin/KScannerButtons.kmdr] (and entries below) in
~/.kde/share/config/kommanderrc with your favorite text editor. The broken
KScannerButtons.desktop launcher has been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kscannerbuttons/
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[026] - libchipcard 3.0.2 (Chipcard3)
by aquamaniac (http://freshmeat.net/users/aquamaniac/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 17:16
System :: Hardware
About: Libchipcard is a framework for easy access to chipcards/smartcards
via chip card terminals/readers. It uses the CTAPI or IFD driver provided
by manufacturers. It works under Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X, and
Windows, and has been tested with many different readers (even in
parallel).
Changes: This version fixes some bugs. The GeldKarte code is now able to
read transactions from newer GeldKarte cards (->AqGeldKarte now works with
those cards as well).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libchipcard/
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[027] - libunion 0.0.2
by ico2 (http://freshmeat.net/users/ico2/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 07:26
Software Development :: Libraries
About: Libunion is a library for manipulating unionfs unions. It is based
partly on code from the unionctl tool of the original unionfs project.
This tool is replaced in this package with a version capable of using the
library. Command line options for unionctl in this package are identical
to those of the original.
Changes: This is the first proper release of libunion. The library is now
fully usable, as is the unionctl version included. The functions provided
by the library are well documented in the manual page, including examples.
This release has not been extensively tested yet, so it should not be used
for anything important.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libunion/
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[028] - Liquid Weather ++ 13.5
by Dumbkiwi (http://freshmeat.net/users/dmbkiwi/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 23:13
Desktop Environment :: K Desktop Environment (KDE)
About: Liquid Weather ++ is a superkaramba theme and desktop applet for
displaying weather information and forecasts. You need superkaramba and
the KDE desktop. It displays weather information in a compact and easy to
read format.
Changes: Bugs in the parsing engine for Accuweather caused by changes to
their Web site were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lwplus/
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[029] - Logtalk 2.29.1
by Paulo Moura (http://freshmeat.net/users/pmoura/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 23:12
Software Development :: Pre-processors
About: Logtalk is an open source object-oriented extension to the Prolog
programming language. Integrating logic programming with object-oriented
and event-driven programming, it is compatible with most Prolog compilers.
It supports both prototypes and classes. In addition, it supports
component-based programming through category-based composition.
Changes: This release adds a Logtalk version of John Fletcher's Prolog XML
parser, improves the Linux RPM and Mac OS X installer packages, improves
support for some Prolog compilers, and fixes a couple of bugs in the
Logtalk compiler and in the library objects.
License: Artistic License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/logtalk/
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[030] - msort 8.33
by Bill Poser (http://freshmeat.net/users/billposer/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 17:14
Text Processing
Text Processing :: Linguistic
Utilities
About: Msort sorts files in sophisticated ways. Records may be fixed size,
newline-separated blocks, or terminated by any specified character. Key
fields may be selected by position, tag, or character range. For each key,
distinct exclusions, multigraphs, substitutions, and a sort order may be
defined or locale collation rules used. Comparisons may be lexicographic,
numeric, numeric string, hybrid, random, by string length, angle, domain
name, date, time, month name, or ISO8601 timestamp. Keys may be reversed
so as to generate reverse dictionaries. Optional keys are supported.
Unicode is supported, including full case-folding. Msort itself has a
somewhat complex command line interface, but may be driven by an optional
GUI.
Changes: Numeric keys are no longer restricted to the usual Indo-Arabic
numerals. They may now be in any of 25 other number systems: Arabic
(Western and Eastern), Bengali, Burmese, Chinese, Devanagari, Egyptian,
Ethiopic, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Kannada, Klingon, Lao, Malayalam,
Nko, Old Italic, Old Persian, Oriya, Phoenician, Roman numerals, Tamil,
Telugu, Tengwar, Thai, and Tibetan.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/msort/
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[031] - Open Administration for Schools 2.20
by Les Richardson (http://freshmeat.net/users/richl/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 22:53
Education
About: Open Administration for Schools (OAfS) is a Web-based school
administration package. Open Admin does demographics, attendance,
discipline, report cards, and has an online gradebook and parent viewing
function. It is designed for elementary, K-12, and small high schools. It
generates plain HTML and uses LaTeX for PDF generation. It also includes
special education and division-wide central office modules (all schools
run on the same server with different virtual sites; two sites per school,
one for teachers, and one for the office). Parent functions are by separate
parent/school site.
Changes: A new Transporation System was added to provide more
comprehensive information about student transport to and from school,
including attendance information in bus supervisor PDF reporting.
Scripting was added to improve automation with provincial authorities via
improved XML query functions.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openadmin/
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[032] - OpenHPI 2.7.3 (Development)
by Renier (http://freshmeat.net/users/renier/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 13:28
System :: Diagnostics
System :: Hardware
System :: Monitoring
About: Open HPI is an open source project created to provide an open
implementation of the SA Forum's Hardware Platform Interface (HPI). It
provides a universal interface for Platform Management, including hardware
sensor monitoring and control.
Changes: This release adds new IPMI and BladeCenter plugin features, a
couple of useful library public functions, improvements to BladeCenter
BCHT support, and oHpi public functions (as an aid to associate resources
from different plugins). It makes IPMIDirect's LED and fan ATCA support
compliant with the HPI-ATCA mapping specification,
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openhpi/
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[033] - Openwall Linux kernel patch 2.4.34-ow1 (Linux 2.4)
by Solar Designer (http://freshmeat.net/users/solardiz/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 05:21
Security
System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux
System :: Systems Administration
About: The Openwall Linux kernel patch is a collection of security
"hardening" features for the Linux kernel. In addition to the new
features, some versions of the patch contain various security fixes. The
"hardening" features of the patch, while not a complete method of
protection, provide an extra layer of security against the easier ways to
exploit certain classes of vulnerabilities and/or reduce the impact of
those vulnerabilities. The patch can also add a little bit more privacy to
the system by restricting access to parts of /proc so that users may not
see what others are doing.
Changes: This release was updated to Linux 2.4.34. Minor documentation
updates have been made.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/linux-ow-patch/
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[034] - PgmReloaded 0.8.6
by matteo lucarelli (http://freshmeat.net/users/accio/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 05:37
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: PgmReloaded is a simple CMS for e-commerce and Web catalogs, and is
an evolution of PgMarket. It features Web-based administration, CSS
styling, image and thumbnail handling, product organization in categories
and subcategories of arbitrary levels, mailing of orders, storage of all
the orders in the database, and configuration through a configuration file
without modifying scripts and templates.
Changes: This version correct critical vulnerabilities due to file
inclusion.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pgmreloaded/
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[035] - PM Report 3.6
by Zeke Walker (http://freshmeat.net/users/zekebms/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 10:30
Database
Database :: Front-Ends
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: PM Report is a PHP/MySQL report generator. It creates customizable
reports and is very simple to setup and use. You can select which
database, table, and individual fields to use on your report. You can also
select the order in which the fields should appear on the report, the field
you would like to group by, the field you would like to sort by, and
whether or not you would like a total for each column. Once the report has
been generated, you can highlight individual rows and export the results to
CSV.
Changes: Report generation and saved reports now work using POST variables
instead of GET variables, so longer tables no longer cause errors.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pmreport/
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[036] - Postfilter 0.7.2
by aioe (http://freshmeat.net/users/Aioe/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 17:13
Communications :: Usenet News
About: Postfilter is a Perl filter for Internet Net News (innd) that
checks all messages sent by local users searching for spam and invalid
content. Although it's designed for large sites that need a complex tool,
it could also be used by local or private servers.
Changes: This release adds a new more powerful ban list. Improved Web
documentation is available.
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/postfilter/
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[037] - PyMediaServer 0.5.0
by Joseph (http://freshmeat.net/users/mojojoseph/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 23:47
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players :: MP3
About: PyMediaServer is a barebones UPnP media server that was written to
serve MP3s to a Netgear MP101 Digital Music Player.
Changes: The ability to retrieve media content (MP3s) directly from an
Amarok database for presentation to the Netgear MP101 was added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pymediaserver/
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[038] - rdup 0.3.5
by Miek Gieben (http://freshmeat.net/users/miek/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 23:54
System :: Archiving :: Backup
About: rdup is a utility inspired by rsync and the Plan9 way of doing
backups. rdup itself does not backup anything; it only prints a list of
the names of files that have changed since the last backup. It also
handles files that are removed, allowing for correct incremental backups.
Auxilary scripts are needed to act on this list and implement the backup
strategy. This way rdup can be kept lean and mean.
Changes: An exclude option was added and rdup-restore was refactored.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rdup/
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[039] - Ruby/Informix 0.5.0
by Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido
(http://freshmeat.net/users/santanagomez/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 23:12
Database :: API
Software Development :: Libraries :: Ruby Modules
About: Ruby/Informix is a Ruby extension for connecting to IBM Informix
Dynamic Server. It provides a convenient interface for querying an
Informix database in Ruby programs.
Changes: The extension is now easier to install. BigDecimal is now used
for DECIMAL and MONEY columns. Resource management was provided for
cursors, statements, and connections by using blocks. New methods were
added for getting the status and storage characteristics information from
SLOBs. Thread safety and bugs were fixed.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ruby-informix/
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[040] - Schism Tracker 0.5rc1
by storlek (http://freshmeat.net/users/storlek/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 23:23
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Editors
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Sound Synthesis
About: Schism Tracker is a tracked music editor that aims to match the
look and feel of Impulse Tracker as closely as possible. The player code
is based on the Modplug library, so it supports a wide variety of module
formats.
Changes: Many new features were incorporated from mrsbrisby's CVS
versions. The executable file is now named schismtracker, so the old
"schism" should be removed after upgrading.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/schism/
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[041] - sendEmail 1.55
by Brandon Zehm (http://freshmeat.net/users/princecaspian/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 13:27
Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Email Clients (MUA)
Utilities
About: SendEmail is a lightweight, completely command line-based SMTP
email delivery program. If you have the need to send email from a command
prompt this tool is perfect. It was designed to be used in bash scripts,
Perl programs, and Web sites, but it is also quite useful in many other
contexts. It is written in Perl, and is unique in that it requires no
special modules, and supports any platform that runs Perl. It has a
straightforward interface, making it very easy to use.
Changes: A new command line option to specify a local bind address. EHLO
should never send "localhost" now. A small change to how the time zone is
sent. The Windows executable now has TLS support enabled.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sendemail/
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[042] - Sequoia 3.0 beta 2 (Development)
by Emmanuel Cecchet (http://freshmeat.net/users/cecchet/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 07:30
Database
Database :: Database Engines/Servers
Database :: Front-Ends
About: Sequoia (formerly known as the Clustered JDBC project) provides
high availability and performance scalability for databases. It provides
transparent database clustering (partitioning, replication, etc.) to any
Java application through JDBC. It works with any Java application without
code modification and with any database engine. It has been successfully
tested with Tomcat, JBoss, JOnAS, WebSphere, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache
Derby, HSQLDB, SAP DB, Oracle, DB2, Sybase, MS SQL Server, Firebird, and
more.
Changes: This release includes a long list of feature improvements and
bugfixes. A new embedded recovery log has been implemented for a
transactional log without configuration. New demos are based on these new
features. Other usability improvements and performance enhancements are
also part of this release.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sequoia/
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[043] - SiSU 0.48.9
by Ralph Amissah (http://freshmeat.net/users/ralph222/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 10:20
Database
Information Management
Information Management :: Document Repositories
About: SiSU (Structured information, Serialized Units) is a command line
driven document creation and management framework. With minimal markup of
a plaintext file, it produces: plain-text, HTML, XHTML, XML, ODF
(OpenDocument), LaTeX, PDF, and populates an SQL database (PostgreSQL or
SQLite) at an object/paragraph level for "atomic searches". Prepare
documents using your text editor of choice, then use SiSU to generate the
desired output formats. Vim 7 provides syntax highlighting for SiSU
markup. (For earlier versions, a syntax highlighting file is provided).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sisu/
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[044] - StreamCruncher 1.02 Beta
by Ashwin Jayaprakash (http://freshmeat.net/users/AshwinJ/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 23:13
Database :: Database Engines/Servers
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
System :: Monitoring
About: StreamCruncher is an Event Processor. It supports a language based
on SQL which allows you to define "Event Processing" constructs like
Sliding Windows, Time Based Windows, Partitions, and Aggregates. Such
constructs allow for the specification of boundaries (some are time
sensitive) on a Stream of Events that SQL does not provide. Queries can be
written using this language, which in turn can be used to monitor streams
of incoming events. It also provides a feature similar to materialized
views. Joins and sub-queries are also supported to allow event
co-relation. A database is used underneath to do the heavy lifting.
Changes: The highest/lowest window construct was enhanced with an "update
group" clause. More real-world examples including ReStockAlertTest,
SLAAlertTest, TopSellingItemsTest, and ShipmentAggregatorTest were added
to the test cases.
License: Freeware
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/streamcruncher/
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[045] - Talend Open Studio 1.1.0RC1 (Development)
by Pierrick LE GALL (http://freshmeat.net/users/z0rglub_pierrick/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 05:26
Database :: Front-Ends
Software Development :: Code Generators
About: Talend Open Studio is an ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) tool.
Talend Open Studio can perform jobs that range from datawarehouse feeding
to database synchronization, as well as file format transformations. Its
graphical interface is made with Eclipse RCP, and data related scripts are
generated in Perl. The application was designed to be extended with
components written by users.
Changes: A Perl help document was added. A job statistics catcher
component was added. The ability to update or delete lines in a database
table was added. The ability to export a job as a Perl script in a zip
archive was added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/talend/
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[046] - Tapestry JSCookMenu 2.20
by perseios (http://freshmeat.net/users/perseios/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 05:03
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: Tapestry JSCookMenu provides a component for the Apache Tapestry
Web framework that makes it possible to create JavaScript menus and
navigation sidebars easily with an arbitrary number of hierarchical pop up
sub menus. The famous JavaScript "JSCookMenu", written by Heng Yuan, is
encapsulated within the component. The component gives an easy
Tapestry-like programming interface to the Web developer. There are some
built-in themes for the look of the menu. There is a WYSIWYG tool
available to create sophisticated themes within minutes.
Changes: JavaScript links (javascript:...) didn't work because of
timestamp decoration this has been fixed. An item to demonstrate a
JavaScript link has been added in the XML-model example. The section about
JavaScript links was changed in the manual. Nesting in span-tags is not
necessary to make them render. The horizontal separator for submenus in
Themes Office and SmartGreen was broken.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tapestrymenu/
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[047] - The Frink Language 2006-12-27
by Alan Eliasen (http://freshmeat.net/users/eliasen/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 23:12
Education
Internet
Scientific/Engineering
About: Frink is a calculating tool and programming language designed to
help you in the real world. It tracks units of measurement throughout all
calculations and ensures that answers are correct. It converts between
systems of measurement and has a huge library of physical data. It handles
conversions between time zones, currencies, and historical values of the
U.S. dollar and the British pound, translates between several languages,
does date/time math, and more.
Changes: A "Save History" menu item was added to the AWT GUI. This allows
you to save your calculations to a text file so they can be later
incorporated into a program, or edited and run later as a program. In
addition, warnings were added to the "What's New" page about how (all)
Java applications will produce incorrect Daylight Saving Time conversions
for the United States in 2007 and beyond unless the Java Virtual Machine
is updated. This is due to new rules for Daylight Saving that will take
effect in 2007.
License: Other/Proprietary License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/frinklang/
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[048] - Tudu Lists 2.0-beta-1
by Julien Dubois (http://freshmeat.net/users/roullian/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 23:56
Information Management
Office/Business
Office/Business :: Scheduling
About: Tudu Lists is a Web application for managing todo lists. With Tudu
Lists, todo lists can be easily accessed, edited, and shared on the Web.
It is a simple but effective project management tool.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tudu/
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[049] - TVBrowser 2.5
by troggan (http://freshmeat.net/users/troggan/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 05:36
Desktop Environment :: Tools
About: TV-Browser is a TV guide (EPG) that is easily extensible using
plugins. It is designed to look like a paper based European TV guide.
Included are over 100 German language channels. It is possible to offer
channels using tools offered on the homepage.
Changes: Picture support was added. Data can be exported to Outlook, iCal,
and Google Calendar.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tvbrowser/
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[050] - VMware 6 Beta Build 36983 (Workstation Development)
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 10:19
About: VMware allows you to run 'virtual machines' inside a Linux host. It
is not an emulator. It provides a virtual computer within the host which
can boot whichever OS you decide to put on the filesystem image that is
used as a harddrive. It will run DOS 6.22, Win 3.1, Win9x,
WinNT/2000/XP/2003, Linux, Novell, and more. The only main requirement is
a 400 MHz or better machine, along with lots of RAM (128M minimum, 256M
recommended).
Changes: Support for several operating systems, most notably Windows Vista
and Solaris 10, was added. 64-bit guest support was improved. Support for
multiple monitors, also for those not physically available on the host,
was added. Integrated virtual debuggers for Visual Studio and Eclipse were
added. Virtual machines can now run in the background, detached from the
screen, as in VMware Server. They can also act as VNC servers without
special software on the host or guest. Copy and Paste buffer support and
Drag and Drop functionality were enhanced. High-Speed USB (2.0) devices
are now supported.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vmware/
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[051] - Wine 0.9.28
by twickline (http://freshmeat.net/users/twickline/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 10:34
Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Emulators
About: Wine is an implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix.
It does not require Microsoft Windows, but can use native Windows DLLs if
they are available. It provides both a development toolkit for porting
Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many
unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes.
Changes: OpenGL in child windows should work again. There is better mouse
support in games. There is the beginnings of new state management in
Direct3D. Audio and font support on Mac OS have been improved. There are
many bugfixes.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wine/
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[052] - Work order / Ticket Processing System 0.1.6
by Mirko Kaiser (http://freshmeat.net/users/Skylinux_Tux/)
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 17:14
Database
Information Management :: Issue Tracking
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
About: The Workorder Processing System allows you to quickly set up a work
order/ticket tracking system for most service related businesses. It is
capable of handling multiple branches, which allows all branches to run
from one central server connected to the Internet.
Changes: This release adds auto print functionality and fixes a minor bug
in the update script.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/workorder_processing/
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